(1898-1948) Sergei Eisenstain was a world-renowned film director, cinema theorist and artist, a pioneer in the theory and the practice of montage. He was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1989, in the family of the engineer and architect Mikhail Eisenstein. Sergei graduated from Riga Realschule, and in 1915 entered the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg). In his free time he studied art and architecture, practiced painting and visited theatres. During the October Revolution, Eisenstein was sent to military service, and in 1918 he joined the Red Army. He worked as an artist at army theatre collectives and continued to self-study history and architecture. In 1920, Eisenstein moved to Moscow and started to work as an artist at the First Proletkult Theatre. Later he entered Vsevolod Meyerhold's Art Workshops. In 1920-1923, the artist participated in creating performances in various theatres, such as the Proletcult Theatre, Foregger's Workshop ("Mastfor") and the Meyerhold Theatre. While working on the Proletcult theatre's performance "Wise Man", Eisenstein first applied his montage of attraction method. He also started to experiment with cinema by creating a film scene "Glumov’s Diary" for this performance. Later Eisenstein left the theatre and remained to work as a movie director. On this path he made a great contribution to the world cinematography. His most famous works are "Strike" and "Battleship Potemkin" (1925), "Alexander Nevsky" (1938), "Ivan the Terrible" (in two parts, 1944 and 1958). In the Bakhrushin Theatre Museum collection we keep Eisenstein's sketches for theatre performances, photos of his screenplays and his early educational works, as well as photo portraits of Eisenstein himself.